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This Same Jesus

I found this poem in an old book, The kind that feel good to touch, and smell of old.

Today on the road I met Him:
The very same Jesus who trod
The old, old lanes and highways
On His beautiful errands for God

I was troubled and heart-sick and weary
With a load too heavy to bear;
I cried aloud in my weakness
And suddenly He was there,

His gentle hand on my shoulder
Was lifting the burden from me,
And He dried mt tears, and I knew Him,
It was Jesus of Galilee:

No different at all from the Master
On the Jericho road that day;
No different at all from the Saviour
Along the Samaria way,

And I am so glad that I met Him!
I knelt and called out his name,
And I am so grateful I found Him
Unchanged and forever the same

G.N. Crowell, Songs of Hope, 1938

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Here I pitch my tent

Today, at college, we spent the day in quiet reflection. We were asked to reflect on what we wanted to ‘build’ for God this semester, and then make it out of clay.

I’m not the best clay sculptor, and so I made a simple teepee. It wasn’t very good and it fell flat a few times, but you know? I kind of liked it. It reminded me that I’m not really the best person in the world.

Here’s a poem I wrote:

Here I pitch my tent
It’s not very good
Strength is not it’s pride
Not many will find it comfortable

Yet here I pitch my tent
And if ‘here’ should fail
And my tent comes down
Why be concerned? It’s just a tent

Here I pitch my tent
Exposed
Open
For all to see

Here I pitch my tent
Pitch yours with me

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